pousse-pousse
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pousse-pousse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite voiture monoplace légère à deux roues, originaire d’Extrême-Orient, où une seule personne peut trouver place et qui est poussée ou tirée par une autre. Pronounced \pus.pus\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pousse-pousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pus.pus\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pousse-pousse is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pus.pus\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pousse-pousse in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pousse-pousse, spelled P-O-U-S-S-E---P-O-U-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite voiture monoplace légère à deux roues, originaire d’Extrême-Orient, où une seule personne peut trouver place et qui est poussée ou tirée par une autre.
- 2Petite charrette légère à deux ou quatre roues, pour transporter des bagages ou marchandises, qui est poussée ou tirée par une ou plusieurs personnes.
- 3Autre nom du jeu de taquin.
- 4Petit véhicule pour enfants qui permet de le coucher dedans.
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